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Date: 29 March 2009 11:41:30
Ok, I think we're all a bit like the Steam Punks who want the best of modern technology and a bygone age. Sometimes it is easy for us to think modern life is rubbish, (as Blur once declared), but we are happy to reap the benefits.
I don't have any wish to Twitter, (if you don't know ask Wiki), but hey... I can see how it can have its uses for some people. I was initially resistant to Facebook but have recently been reaping the benefits of that one. Take this week for example, I got a get well card through the post with a Tesco voucher enclosed (a random act of kindness from an old friend who had picked up on Facebook this weeks situation ). She sent me a card with instructions to buy chocolate and wine on line... well, I got the chocolate but I'm currently avoiding alcohol so I got boring things I needed. Tried to do it online but well, I didn't take to it.... particularly when I saw the delivery charge at the end and thought s*d that Third Party can do it the old fashioned way. It was a lovely thought though, a random act of kindness facilitated by technology.
Then there's You Tube which I have to say I am becoming rather taken with. Third Party uses this as a kind of juke box come kareoke machine. I have found out it can also be a rather useful teaching tool. Anyway, it appears to be a wonderful thing if you have a bored teenager and their equally bored mum looking for something to do which costs nothing on a Saturday evening. After a bit of surfing around looking at festival line ups, (Cambridge Folk Festival is up - solid but not stellar line up this year) we ended up enjoying a night of reminising about Greenbelt and praising the virtues of the 80's. The reminising about Greenbelt was a rather strange affair which involved going through the You Tube catalogue of Beer and Hymns and Cider and Carols aswell as reinacting finding the loo in the dark (yes we did the turning the lights off thing for Earth out or whatever it was called). Finally we enjoyed a surreal collection of punk covers of things like Over the Rainbow and Disney songs, aswell as more contemporary tunes.
Sometimes technology can be a real blessing, and so too can Third Party.